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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Albrecht Becker Univ.-Prof. Dr. Albrecht Becker, +43 512 507 71410
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Silvia Jordan Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Silvia Jordan, +43 512 507 71413

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VU Politics of Numbers in Organizations and Society

VU 2

5

wöch.

jährlich

Englisch

After taking the course, students:

are able to critically reflect indicator-based techniques and instruments, such as performance indicators, rankings, and ratings;

are able to discuss the prevalence, practices, and effects of different indicators in organisations and societies;

are knowledgeable about scientific, societal, and political discourses on indicators and numbers.

Practices and effects of indicator-based control of organisations and societies; role of performance indicators, rankings, and ratings in organisations and societies; critical discourses on the politics of numbers. Exemplary fields studied in the course comprise: accounting for poverty; politics of accounting fraud; performance measures in healthcare; politics of rankings & ratings; accounting & the creation of markets; accounting as gendering & gendered; the politics of algorithm.

Lecturer input, student presentations, in-class discussions.

Presentation, term paper, participation.

Suggested introductory reading (open access):

Espeland, W. N. (2020). Foreword: What numbers do. In A. Mennicken & R. Salais (Eds.), The new politics of numbers: Utopia, evidence and democracy (pp. vii - x). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6

This course is open for students from all Master programmes. You do not need specific knowledge on accounting.

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